I had wanted Reuben's Hazy IPA, but they were out. This was advertised as juicy, but it was more of a standard Northwest IPA flavor. Excellent IPA, though, clear and fragrant, fruit and pine. Clean cereal finish, no oily bitterness. Unsurprisingly good, given the brewery.

Dessert-like, not syrupy but still a little too sweet for me to love. This is a hard balance to hit, I think. It's the cinnamon trap! At least it didn't taste like potpourri, and it was way better than the Dragon's Milk.

Another opaque, juicy, NE-style beer from Skookum. This one I liked the most of those I've tried, though -- maybe it's the mellow finish from being a less strong beer, but the pale citrus, hops and cereal seemed to be perfectly in balance here. Nice buttery transition into the finish too.

The bottle label of this beer implies this is the base of Perennial's other big stouts, and it shows. Almost candy sweet, thick; somehow not crazy overdone but still something that can only be had in small doses. Lots of vanilla.

Holy cat this was against expectations. There's quite a lot of hoppy character built into this, like a strong CDA with a little more roast and thickness. Somehow still good (I don't usually enjoy this style) but definitely a surprise.

A smooth, thick stout with the most disturbingly accurate strawberry ice cream flavor I've ever encountered in a beer. All three of the Neapolitan components are definitely here, but this is somehow coherently a beer too. I'm glad it's not colored accurately, though!

I get the trick now; this doesn't actually taste like a stout other than it is devoid of the more fragrant notes you'd expect from a golden beer. Very smooth, and more chocolate than roast (as you'd predict). More sparkly than most nitro beers. I liked this.

I'd call this a stout more than a porter, based solely on thickness, but who cares? It was delicious. Creamy, roasty dark ale, with light hints of sweet, bitter, coffee, and umami. Nothing pokes out; everything is super well-balanced.

So, Pumking is great, but if you were looking for something to cut the sweet, pie custard quality of that beer, this is probably exactly what the doctor ordered. A fairly roasty coffee flavor counteracts a very Pumking opening and makes for a different ending. Drama, not comedy, if you're in that mood!

Wonderfully balanced creamy chocolate stout. Just enough vanilla to smoothen and sweeten the stout to a remarkably clean finish. No notable rough edges. Only thing kind of missing in action is the orange flavor, but I didn't really care. I kept waiting for this to get worse, but it didn't.

Super sour, definitely a bright Muscat grape flavor. Bit of salt that sits on the tongue appealingly. But this has the same issue as regular grape juice has for me, a lingering tackiness and sweetness in the throat.

Smells of piney hops and Muscat grape juice. Puckeringly sour, intensely grapey in flavor, bordering on fake Japanese grape candy flavor. Still appealing, but somewhat out of balance. Less sourness would have helped.

Somewhat sweet and high on the alcohol, like many barreled barley wines. Dark molasses and plum flavors. A good, strong, bourbony beer, but not very complex, and it's not hiding its alcohol content at all.

Fairly thick, roasty flavor to start, with a middle body that is both unsubtle sweet alcohol flavor and a bit of lactic tackiness smoothening it out. Overall the impression is roast -> sweet -> milk-malt. Pretty good, but not in the top tier.

Moderately strong floral hops in this "classic" pilsner, which is unclassic enough for me to think this is more like an IPL, or a northwest Kolsch-type beer. Put aside the inaccuracy of the name, though, and the flavors are pleasant enough, especially the sweet cereal finish.

Thick, quite sweet, and boozy. Cocoa, cinnamon, and (light) chilies were all in evidence. Not quite as good as the other (strong) Skookums we've had in the past (the cinnamon was a bit on the nose), but enjoyable enough.

Musty, cloudy-tasting... The peach had a kind of canned-syrup quality to it, although it wasn't overbearing. The most serious problem was that this beer didn't really taste "fresh." Kind of a deal-breaker.

An odd beer. Clear maple / burnt sugar notes come on, almost too strong, but without any sweetness. The base brown ale is quite hoppy and floral, which combine with the maple to make for a dank, rooty flavor that tastes somewhere between ginseng and licorice. Easy to drink, but hard to love, and the ugly opaque brown color didn't help.

Fragrant, round citrus opening, like a Mandarin orange or something, on par with other Fremont fresh hop offerings. However, the finish was a little too alpha for me and built up rather acridly over time. I need to seek out this year's Cowiche Canyon offerings.

A dry cider with a complex, mellow apple flavor. Slight buttery / yeasty notes make for a clean, crisp finish. I really, really liked the overall taste of this cider - not too sweet, not too dry. Not tart at all.

My previous review for this beer was quite underwhelming. I liked it a lot this time, though. Crisp, cereal-strong amber lager with a tang that is a bit uric, a bit apple-y. Slightly funky but not too much.

Unlike the New Belgium, this beer felt intentionally designed in flavor from start to finish. A medium tart beer with sourness that doesn't veer too far in either a vinegary or fruity direction, with a balance of malt sweetness and funk to round out the complexity. This wasn't life-changing, but it was very solid. Not a bad first choice for this brewery.

I've liked Prairie's stouts before, so I was excited, but this was a decided pass for me. A not entirely pleasant mix of thick chocolate milk and over-roasted bitterness. Separately these wouldn't really break a beer but together I'm having a hard time finishing the glass. It's both too sweet and too burnt.

First taste is a strong hit of lychee, followed by an unusual, brief top of tongue tartness. That lychee quality fades really quickly into a generic fruitiness, and the sour all but dissipates into a kind of wheaty funk. The finish is tart again (but in the back of the throat), with some cereal.

Bold toffee/caramel and bourbon notes, a straightforward bourbon stout that manages to be somewhat raw without being too boozy. I'd say this is somewhere on the candy-like side, but it was enjoyable in that context.

Another very strong coffee Speedway. Like the others, a touch on the bitter side, but otherwise rich and smooth. I wish I could do a side-by-side with the Kona, because it's very similar and I'd love to examine the differences.

So... surprisingly, this was a non barrel-aged beer made with barrel-aged coffee beans, which was weird. I don't think the bourbon came through, but maybe it did in the sheer mellowness of the coffee flavor in this beer. I don't like nitro, but I still loved this beer, with its creamy finish.

A little funky, even in comparison to the funky Jasmine Wheat, which I suspect was a big negative on its own (my previous review). Here it was actually pretty pleasant, although still a bit unusual. Good barley taste.

Strange, candy-like perfume fragrance that is floral, but not explicitly identifiable as jasmine (I thought). Nice, neutral tasting sweet wheat-funk Hefe, with just a bit of candy / bubblegum on top with that florality in addition. I thought this was really pleasant.

A weird beast; mostly a very pleasant semi-sweet cider, but there's a phantom second drink in the aftertaste here, a bit smokey and a bit roasty. It's actually a really interesting mix, and may even be better if you don't know what's going on.

A dark brown or a very light porter in caramel and roastiness, dry and biscuit-like. The weizenbock yeast character comes in with a subtle clove spiciness but without the usually-accompanying fruit notes or sweetness, which makes for a unique, slightly festive beer.

That feeling you get when you grab a grapefruit juice and instead of being delicious Ruby Red or Pink Grapefruit, it's that horrible yellow stuff? That's what this was. Super-dry with a resinous hop presence. Not. Good.

A lot of unusual flavors in this stout, with a nutty, slightly latte-like flavor with moderately roasted malt flavors. There's a hint of the alcohol's strength at the back, but overall this was the most interesting in the bunch, and probably the best.

Lots of banana at the forefront, almost saturated, with some complex spice flavors in the mix. Good, lager-like cereal on the finish It's not exactly crisp, but it is flavorful and those flavors are good.

An unexpected hit of coriander and other flavors more Belgian than English. Tasted a bit like a holiday cookie. Finished with a mild, malty roundness and a moderate bitter finish. Definitely grew on me until I rather quite liked it.

A solid stout with coffee notes, and it would have been perfectly fine if I hadn't just had the Big Woody, which was excellent. This was just decent. Less sweet and a little more sour than that beer, as well.

It's not mentioned anywhere, but this beer has a very pronounced coffee & cream flavor, and it's a good coffee. This is in the general neighborhood of a Sump in terms of excellent coffee stouts, even if it doesn't quite reach that level.